As the fight between Karl and Luisa continued, Gwen, Erik, and Amber were still in the infirmary, waiting for Floyd to wake up. After twenty minutes of lying on the infirmary bed, the young man slowly regained consciousness.
"Ugh..." Floyd moaned in pain as he tried to stand up.
"Easy, easy," Amber said, pushing Floyd back on the bed.
The young man then looked at his surroundings only to be disoriented by what he did see. He was no longer inside the ring, fighting against Anderson; instead, Gwen, Erik, and Amber surrounded him, and he was in what he assumed was the infirmary.
"Since I'm here, it means I have lost, uh?"
"Yeah..." Erik said. However, he didn't feel that sorry for Floyd. Since learning the reason for them being his friends, to begin with, he started being a little bit resentful.
"You could have done nothing about it, Floyd," Gwen said. "Anderson is simply too strong. Even I would have problems fighting against him despite my armor power," she added.
Floyd sighed deeply. His defeat had not been due to any lack of skill or strength; rather, it seemed that there was just something about Anderson that made even the best fighters fall short when facing him. A cheer erupted from a distance; it was due to the people watching the fight between Karl and Luisa.
"Who is fighting right now?" Floyd asked.
"Karl and Luisa," Amber replied. "It wasn't long since you did pass out."
"I get it..." Floyd replied.
Another cheer rang from a distance.
"Who do you think is going to win the match?" Erik asked Gwen who was the most knowledgeable person among the four.
"To be honest, I don't really know," the woman replied. " Karl and Luisa are equally matched and have very nasty powers. Though, if I really had to take the side of one of the two, I would say that Luisa has greater odds of winning," Gwen said.
"Is this because she has a pyrokinesis power?" Erik asked.
"Indeed, since they both are DRHO1, the only difference between them is because of the Jorm scale, which is D for Karl, while B for Luisa. Though her opponent is a very cunning one, and he can find a way to beat her regardless," Gwen concluded.
"I get it," Erik said.
In the meantime, the fight between Karl and Luisa was getting heated. The young man was constantly in his smoke form and attacked Luisa from different angles.
The young woman couldn't possibly avoid them all, but she did her best and at least evaded the most devastating attacks.
At the same time, she reacted quickly to Karl's attack, sending him fireballs that burned his skin quite often, leaving the young man in pain and giving him a hard time.
But after some time, Karl stopped attacking directly at the young woman. Instead, he began throwing various rocks he got from the ground around the ring toward Luisa with such speed and accuracy that it almost appeared as though those projectiles were shot by a gun.
One moment, the young man was throwing stones from her left, the other moment from her blind side, making it so that the young woman had problems attacking him with her fireballs since he could simply turn into smoke before she could hit him.
"You won't be able to stay formless forever, Karl!" Luisa shouted. It was indeed true, the fight was already going on for twenty minutes, and Karl was having problems sustaining his power. For this reason, the young man decided to gamble.
He quickly materialized behind Luisa, who, feeling his presence, turned behind, shooting a fireball at point blank. However, Karl only partially turned to smoke, making the fireball pass through him just in the nick of time while punching her with all his strength with his other arm that were still in human shape.
POW
Luisa's eyesight turned black for a moment, and that was all Karl needed. He threw another punch, and then another, until Luisa fell to the ground, unable to resist his attacks. Once she was on the ground, Karl tried to go on top of her and beat her up once and for all.
Still, Luisa fired another fireball at point-blank range, almost hitting Karl but actually setting part of his blond hair on fire.
However, he reacted quickly. He vanished into smoke, reappeared over Luisa's head, and stomped on her with all his strength, making her fall unconscious.
Cheers erupted, and quickly, the referee declared Karl as the winner.
"THE WINNER IS KARL MORAN!"
Cheers reverberated across the field, reaching the school's innards. Soon enough, the healers moved inside the ring to check on Luisa. At that moment, Gwen, Floyd, Amber, and Erik reached the ring; they saw Karl triumphantly raising his hands and an unconscious Luisa on the ground.
"That prick managed to win, and I didn't?" Floyd shouted in outrage.
"Calm down, Floyd..." Gwen said, "You fought against Anderson..." That wasn't enough to calm the young man down, and he angrily kicked the ground.
There was only one fight before Gwen's turn to fight, Natasha versus Darragh. The woman was another one of Nathaniel's lackeys who followed him everywhere. Many people speculated that the two had some kind of relationship since Natasha showed some weird behavior around him.
Natasha could only be described as a beautiful woman with long black shoulder-length hair who used her bangs to cover her forehead. She had an hourglass body shape, but despite this, she was well-toned, as her shoulders were wide and muscular and she was tanned.
Everything about the woman oozed the femme-fatale aura, and she even dressed quite boldly. She usually wore black leggings and shirts that hugged her body tightly, exposing her shoulders and back.
Her shirt would sometimes show off her cleavage or the tops of her breasts if she bent forward too much. She was a BRHO1D individual with the power to create a mana whip. However, she had a sub-power that allowed her to inject the weapon with poisonous mana.
Darragh was, instead, a handsome man with dark brown eyes and short brown hair. His face looked like a model's, except for a scar running vertically along his cheek.
On his upper torso was a tattoo depicting something resembling an eye; the tattoo was characteristic of the Montgomery family.
As Adam's and Luisa's clan, the Montgomery family dealt with elemental users, who could, in this case, control the earth and stones around them.
It was another big clan that usually took children with earth elemental brain crystal powers since they were very young.
The Family held considerable power inside the nation since elemental brain crystal powers were usually mighty, B-rated on the Jorm scale. Darragh was an excellent fighter and was known as a strong earth user inside the school.
"AND NOW!" the referee said, "THE FOLLOWING MATCH WILL BE FOUGHT BETWEEN DARRAGH MONTGOMERY AND NATASHA POPE! LET THEM FEEL YOUR PRESENCE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!"
As soon as their names were called, both Darragh and Natasha jumped on the ring. The two stared at each other without saying anything. There was no need to speak since both knew what to do, fight.
"THE MATCH IS GOING TO START IN A MINUTE, PLEASE, CONTESTANTS, READY YOURSELF!" the referee said, and both the fighters started channeling mana. Natasha summoned her poisonous whip while Darragh spread his mana on the surrounding ground to shoot stone projectiles.
"3...2...1... FIGHT!"
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